Global Land Grab

The Global Land Grab is the "global rush to buy up or lease farmlands abroad as a strategy to secure basic food supplies or simply for profit."

External Resources

 * Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab

External Articles

 * Courtney Comstock, "Meet The Millionaires And Billionaires Suddenly Buying Tons Of Land In Africa," Business Insider, June 30, 2011.
 * Hedge funds 'grabbing land' in Africa, BBC News, June 8, 2011.
 * Mike Eckel, "The Great Asian Land Grab: How a World Bank program helped displace tens of thousands of urban poor.," Foreign Policy, May 13, 2011.
 * Neil MacFarquhar, "African Farmers Displaced as Investors Move In," New York Times, December 21, 2010.
 * John Vidal, How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab, The Observer, March 7, 2010.